I don’t know.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.
To work for some asshole and make just enough money to get by.
Purpose?
So much this.
Nothing!
To quote Carl Sagan, “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
To enjoy the world and minimize how much I prevent others from enjoying it as well.
How do you do the first?
Personally, I indulge my wanderlust and love of good food.
It doesn’t feel like you’re living a cliché? “Food and travel”?
I don’t give a shit. It’s fun as hell and I get to cook wonderful food for the ones I love.
Nothing wrong with living a cliché
On a cosmic timescale, facilitate a world with minimal suffering and maximal fulfillment.
To end it peacefully
To crush my enemies, see them driven before me and hear the lamentations of their women
Spend your life enjoying it and helping others enjoy theirs. As the universe unfolds, we’ve only got this one brief moment of consciousness before we disappear, we have to make our life filled with as much happiness as we can. And help others fill theirs.
Have you looked into Epicuianism? Sounds like what you wrote fits.
No. I came up with this myself as I was pondering the world, the universe, how there is no evidence of any god existing, and how the best science we have tells us that we are just matter and energy inhabiting spacetime. But matter arranged in such fantastically improbable way that we can feel happiness. Why waste the precious moments we’ve been given on doing anything other than striving to feel happiness? Which of course can come in different forms for every one of us.
I’ve just had a quick search, I guess your message has a typo and you meant Epicureanism? It is similar to how I feel about life, but it seems to say that lack of pain and fear is enough to consider oneself happy. I’d go a bit further and postulate active pursuit of things that positively make you or fellow sentient beings feel pleasure.
I did misspell Epicureanism.
They do suggest that seeking pleasure is very important. But there’s a focus on the simple pleasures with time with friends as one of the highest pleasure. There’s also the concept of atarxia which the state of mind of calmness and acceptance.
curiosity
Currently just trying to be a girl, be kind, and trying to help the people around me.
I’ve sadly always experienced that answer as recursion without an end. “Turtles all the way down” malarkey.
To reduce human suffering by some degree, even if it’s insignificant in the big picture.
